Rearguard Collection

Le Cateau 1914
With German forces nearly upon the field artillery at Le Cateau in northern France, Captain Douglas Reynolds leads a heroic rearguard action

Spanish Civil War. Propaganda postcard for the Republican rearguard, with messages from Spanish president Negrin and Catalan president Companys. Propaganda Undersecretaryship. SPAIN

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Los combatientes necesitan prendas de abrigo (Fighters need warm clothes). Poster ob the International Red Help. SPAIN. Salamanca. Archivo Historico Nacional

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Milicianos! No dsperdicieis municiones, viveres ni energias (Militia! Don't waste neither munitions, provisions nor energies)

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Campesinos, dad vida a la tierra. Otros os la dan y defienden (Farmers, bring life to the earth. Other give it to you and defend it)

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Children's Week, held in Barcelona and organized by the Reginal Council of the International Antifascist Solidarity (1st-7th January 1938). Poster. SPAIN. Madrid

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Inauguration of the Caldetes summer camp, ceremony presided by the Mexican ambassador Alberto Tejada (30th May 1938). SPAIN. Madrid

SPAIN. CATALONIA. Spain. Civil War. Els caiguts et necessiten (The Fallen need you). Poster of the Consell de Sanitat de Guerra, Generalitat of Catalonia (1937). Original drawing by Eduardo Vicente

LARGO CABALLERO, Francisco (1869-1946). Spanish socialist politician. Propaganda poster of the Valencian Socialist Federation. SPAIN. Salamanca. Archivo Historico Nacional

BATTLE OF MONTEREAU
CAMPAIGN IN FRANCE Battle of MONTEREAU Napoleon repulses an attack on his rearguard by Prinz Eugen of Wurttemberg Date: 18 February 1814

British retreat from Thermopylae to Athens by G. H. Davis
From Thermopylae to Athens: the last valiant British retreat. A relief map looking southwards, showing the last stages of a glorious rearguard action during the Battle of Greece, Second World War

The Rearguard by Harold Earnshaw
Back view of a boy scout, complete with knapsack, hat and patched shorts. 1927

Federals at Manassas, US Civil War
The Civil War in America : the last stand made by the Federals at Manassas. The Second Battle of Bull Run, or the Battle of Second Manassas, as it was called by the Confederates

Retiring German cavalry WWI
Bavarian cavalry retreating during the rearguard actions near Chauny which the French took on the 19th March 1917 during World War I

Serbian Retreat to Albania 1915
Serbian troops fight a rearguard action as they retreat scross the border into Albania. Bulgarian advances, and their capture of the city of Nis forced Serbian military

Charlemagne Roncesvalles
The Franks under Charlemagne retreating from Spain meet a Basque/Gascon force at Roncesvalles in the Pyrenees : his rearguard is annihilated, including the paladin Roland

Soldiers in Retreat
A king and his army in retreat; cavalry and foot- soldiers alike look back over their shoulders and one lone bowman fights a rearguard action

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